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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lomax claim was the reason that Stoner was prejudiced against Walker?
(a) Because of his disability.
(b) Because he was dumb.
(c) Because he was white.
(d) Because he was a man.

2. What does Katherine do after she resigns from the university?
(a) Leaves town.
(b) Kills herself.
(c) Gets married.
(d) Moves to Hawaii.

3. What is the name of the graduate student Stoner meets with at the beginning of Chapter IX?
(a) Charles Walker.
(b) Katherine Driscoll.
(c) David Masters.
(d) Ed Frye.

4. Who does the person who questions Stoner about his conduct against Walker agree with after hearing his argument?
(a) Stoner.
(b) The dean.
(c) Charles Walker.
(d) Hollis Lomax.

5. How does Stoner find Katherine when he goes to visit her after hearing she was sick?
(a) Happy.
(b) Excited.
(c) Desperately unhappy.
(d) Curious.

6. Who arrives late for Stoner's seminar in Chapter IX?
(a) Charles Walker.
(b) Ed Frye.
(c) Hollis Lomax.
(d) Katherine Driscoll.

7. What kind of company does Edith become involved in after her father's death?
(a) Theater.
(b) Florist.
(c) Law office.
(d) Catering.

8. What kind of seminar does Stoner allow a student to take in Chapter IX?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Petrarch.
(c) The Sonnet.
(d) Renaissance literature.

9. Where does Stoner project himself to when he has his first out-of-body experience?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) To a dark place.
(c) The universe.
(d) In the sky.

10. What does Stoner realize with shock after he begins having out-of-body experiences regularly?
(a) How unfulfilled he is.
(b) How happy he is.
(c) How he has aged.
(d) How unhappy he is.

11. Who is described as being only a little annoyed by Katherine and Stoner's relationship?
(a) Katherine's husband.
(b) Edith.
(c) Lomax.
(d) Grace.

12. Who tries to convince Lomax to give Stoner his good class schedule back in Chapter XIV?
(a) Edith.
(b) Masters.
(c) Finch.
(d) Sloane.

13. How late is Stoner for his appointment with Katherine to discuss her paper?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) An hour.
(d) 30 minutes.

14. How does Stoner begin looking at the value of his life in Chapter XI?
(a) Bleekly.
(b) In an abstract way.
(c) Darkly.
(d) Happily.

15. What does Stoner's student who audits his seminar present her final presentation on in Chapter IX?
(a) Donatus on Shakespeare.
(b) Renaissance Latin literature.
(c) Petrarch.
(d) The Sonnet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lomax react when Stoner refuses to pass Walker?

2. What is the name of the young woman who audits Stoner's seminar?

3. What does Stoner find unfavorable at work after Lomax takes over the English department?

4. What does Stoner say when Finch asks him if he wants to be the new director of the English department?

5. What is the name of the head of the freshman English department that complains to Lomax about Stoner?

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